Message #6: The Wheels of Justice

(Message sent Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:28:41 -0700)

Here's a random item from the news that you might find interesting. A
man stands accused of a crime, and if he is convicted he faces a jail
term of about three years. His case has been working its way through
the Indian legal system for THIRTY-THREE years! By now ALL the other
people involved in the case - victim, witnesses, investigating
officers - are dead. And yet still his case proceeds and he has to pay
for a lawyer to defend him.